Leigh Howard

Leigh Howard (born 18 October 1989) is an Australian professional racing cyclist. He qualified for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics in both the Men's Madison and Men's Team Pursuit. Howard was part of the Men's team pursuit together with Kelland O'Brien, Sam Weisford and Alexander Porter. They secured a bronze medal after overlapping New Zealand who had crashed. Howard also competed in the Men's Madison where the team finished fifth with a time of 3:48.448 and therefore did not qualify for the final.

Career
Born in Geelong, Victoria, Australia, Howard now resides in Waurn Ponds, Victoria. He began cycling competitively at the age of 10 and first represented Australia in 2005 at the age of 16. Howard is an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder, and initially trained as an automobile electrician.

Howard won the bronze medal in the omnium event at the 2008 UCI Track Cycling World Championships. He went on to take several medals in round 2 and 4 of the 2008–09 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics. In 2009, he again won a medal in the omnium at the World Championships, this time taking gold, he also took the silver medal in both the madison and team pursuit. Howard also had success on the road in 2009, winning stages 1 and 3 of the Tour of Japan.

Howard become a professional rider in 2010 with. In his first professional race with team HTC Columbia, Howard won the fourth stage of the Tour of Oman. Impressively, Howard finished ahead of Daniele Bennati, Tom Boonen and Tyler Farrar on the stage. After two years with the team, Howard moved to for the 2012 season. In November 2015 announced that Howard would join them for the 2016 season, with a role as part of the sprint train for Matteo Pelucchi.

Howard last rode for UCI Continental team.

Road

 * 2006
 * 3rd Time trial, National Junior Championships


 * 2007
 * Tour of Tasmania
 * 1st Stages 1, 4 & 7


 * 2008
 * 1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Tour of the Murray River
 * 1st Stages 5 & 13
 * 1st Coppa Colli Briantei Internazionale
 * Tour of Gippsland
 * 1st Stages 6 & 8
 * Tour of Tasmania
 * 1st Stages 1 & 8
 * 1st Stage 2 Australian Cycling Grand Prix
 * 10th Overall Tour de Berlin
 * 1st Stage 2


 * 2009
 * 1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Tour of Gippsland
 * 1st Stages 2, 3, 6 & 9
 * 1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Okolo Slovenska
 * 1st Classic Astico – Brenta
 * Tour of Japan
 * 1st Jersey green.svg Points classification
 * 1st Stages 1, 3 & 7
 * 1st Stage 1 Thüringen Rundfahrt der U23
 * 4th Circuito del Porto
 * 8th Giro del Belvedere


 * 2010 (2 pro wins)
 * 1st Jersey yellow flanders.svg Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen
 * 1st Stage 4 Tour of Oman
 * 1st Jersey blue.svg Sprints classification, Bayern–Rundfahrt


 * 2011 (1)
 * 1st Stage 5 Ster Elektrotoer
 * 3rd Trofeo Cala Millor
 * 4th Grand Prix de Denain


 * 2012 (1)
 * 1st Stage 2 (TTT) Eneco Tour
 * 3rd Overall Tour of Britain
 * 1st Stage 2


 * 2013 (2)
 * 1st Trofeo Campos–Santanyí–Ses Salines
 * 1st Trofeo Platja de Muro
 * 8th Vuelta a La Rioja


 * 2014
 * 5th Gran Premio Nobili Rubinetterie
 * 7th Overall Tour of Alberta


 * 2015
 * 6th RideLondon–Surrey Classic


 * 2016 (2)
 * 1st Clásica de Almería
 * 1st Stage 1 Tour des Fjords
 * 2nd Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race

Track

 * 2006
 * 1st Rainbow Jersey Track.svg Team pursuit, UCI World Junior Championships
 * National Junior Championships
 * 1st MaillotAustralia.PNG Scratch
 * 2nd Kilo
 * 2nd Madison (with Alex Smyth)
 * 2nd Team pursuit
 * 3rd Individual pursuit


 * 2007
 * UCI World Junior Championships
 * 1st Rainbow Jersey Track.svg Team pursuit
 * 2nd Silver medal uci.svg Madison (with Glenn O'Shea)
 * 3rd Bronze medal uci.svg Individual pursuit
 * National Junior Championships
 * 1st MaillotAustralia.PNG Kilo
 * 1st MaillotAustralia.PNG Omnium
 * 1st MaillotAustralia.PNG Individual pursuit
 * UIV Cup
 * 1st Amsterdam
 * 1st Dortmund
 * 3rd Madison, National Championships (with Travis Meyer)


 * 2008
 * National Championships
 * 1st MaillotAustralia.PNG Madison (with Glenn O'Shea)
 * 1st MaillotAustralia.PNG Scratch
 * 1st MaillotAustralia.PNG Team pursuit
 * 2nd Individual pursuit
 * UIV Cup
 * 1st Amsterdam
 * 1st Munich
 * 2nd Silver medal uci.svg Omnium, UCI World Championships
 * 2nd Scratch, UCI World Cup Classics, Melbourne


 * 2009
 * UCI World Championships
 * 1st Rainbow Jersey Track.svg Omnium
 * 2nd Silver medal uci.svg Madison (with Cameron Meyer)
 * 2nd Silver medal uci.svg Team pursuit
 * UCI World Cup Classics, Beijing
 * 1st Team pursuit
 * 1st Madison (with Glenn O'Shea)
 * National Championships
 * 2nd Team pursuit
 * 3rd Individual pursuit


 * 2010
 * UCI World Championships
 * 1st Rainbow Jersey Track.svg Madison (with Cameron Meyer)
 * 2nd Silver medal uci.svg Omnium
 * UCI World Cup Classics
 * 1st Team pursuit, Beijing
 * 1st Team pursuit, Melbourne
 * 1st Madison, Melbourne (with Cameron Meyer)


 * 2011
 * 1st Rainbow Jersey Track.svg Madison, UCI World Championships (with Cameron Meyer)
 * 1st OceaniaChampionJersey.png Madison, Oceania Championships (with Cameron Meyer)
 * 1st MaillotAustralia.PNG Madison, National Championships (with Glenn O'Shea)
 * 2nd Six Days of Berlin (with Cameron Meyer)


 * 2012
 * 1st Six Days of Berlin (with Cameron Meyer)


 * 2018
 * 1st Gold medal blank.svg Team pursuit, Commonwealth Games
 * Oceania Championships
 * 1st OceaniaChampionJersey.png Team pursuit
 * 2nd Silver medal Oceania.svg Omnium
 * National Championships
 * 1st MaillotAustralia.PNG Team pursuit
 * 2nd Madison (with Jordan Kerby)
 * UCI World Cup
 * 1st Team pursuit, Berlin
 * 2nd Scratch, Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines
 * 3rd Madison, Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (with Kelland O'Brien)
 * 2nd Six Days of London (with Kelland O'Brien)


 * 2019
 * 1st Jersey rainbow.svg Team pursuit, UCI World Championships
 * National Championships
 * 1st MaillotAustralia.PNG Madison (with Glenn O'Shea)
 * 1st MaillotAustralia.PNG Team pursuit
 * UCI World Cup
 * 1st Team pursuit, Brisbane
 * 2nd Team pursuit, Cambridge
 * 3rd Madison, Glasgow (with Sam Welsford)
 * 2nd Silver medal Oceania.svg Scratch, Oceania Championships


 * 2020
 * 3rd Madison, National Championships (with Sam Welsford)


 * 2021
 * 1st MaillotAustralia.PNG Madison, National Championships (with Glenn O'Shea)
 * 3rd Bronze medal olympic.svg Team pursuit, Olympic Games